Phonographic disk-record cabinet



F b 'zzmac E. H HAND PHONOGRAPHIC DISK RECORD CABINET Filed Mar. 29,1922 4 sheets-sheet 1 awn/v5 2:2 or -76.1,

Feb; .27, 1923. 1,446,7(0Q E H. HAND PHONOGRAPH I 0 D1 SK RECORD CABINET F1 1 e 1 Mar 2 9 1 92 2 4 she e t s she e t 2 W V M iza J1 yap w iw INVENTOR:

| "Y m I V ATTORNEYS.

Feb. 27, 1923. 11,446,196

E. H HAND ATTORNEYS Patented lfeio. 227, i923.

ERLE H. HAND, OF STAPLETON, NEW YORK.

'PHONOGRAPHIC DISK-RECORD CABINET.

Application filed March 29 To all to 710m.- it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ennis H. HAND, a. citizen oi the United States, residing at Staple ton, borough of Richmond, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Phonographic DisloRecord Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

In phonographic disk record containers or ejectors, wherein av series of vertical, closely related, parallel compartments are employed, it has been found in practice that the partitions from which these compartments are formed are sometimes liable to buclrle or warp owing to climatic or other conditions, and one object of my invention is to construct these partitions of such a character or contour, that warping will be prevented by the removal oi? certain portions of the material from which said partitions are made so as to form tongues, the latter being preferably held in assembled position by spacing strips or their equivalents through which pass horizontally disposed tie rods, or similar fastening devices.

My invention further consists of record holding compartments formed by partitions of the general character above referred to, and provided with pivoted levers which form the bottoms of the compartments and which have their rear portions widened so as to properly contact with the lower portion of the record to be ejected, so as to enable the desired record to be positively and accurately ejected under all conditions.

It further consists in a novel construction of an ejector bottom, which may be recessed so as to provide a seat into which a record may drop when in its rea-rmost stowed or housed position, in conjunction with an ejector lever which upon being actuated will. etiect or permit the ejection of a desired record by the action of gravity.

It. further consists of other novel features of construction, all as will be hereinafter,

fully set forth.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings forms thereof which are at present preferred by me, since it will give in practire satisfactory and reliable results, a lthough it is to be understood vthat the various instrumentalit-ies of which my invention consistscan be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to ,1922. Serial No. 547,774,.

the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view ol a record holding compa-rtn'ient, showing the upper rear edge of the partition from which the record is formed as being removed and a cut-out portion also in thebottom edge oi? said partition.

Figure 2 represents asection on line 2-9 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents on an enlarged scale a plan view of the ejector lever seen in Figures 1 and 2.

Figure & represents a perspective view of another form of record holding compartment showing another form of partition and levers which may be employed.

Figure 5 represents a section on the line 55 of Figure t.

FigureG represents on an enlarged scale, a plan View of the ejector lever seen in Figures t and 5.

Figure 7 represents a side elevation of a record holding compartment, wherein the upper edges of the partition converge, and wherein a forwardly and downwardly inclined recessed or slotted bottom is employed into which the records drop when in their rear-most or stowed position, said bottom being shown in section.

Figures 8, 9, l0 andv 11 represent side elevations of other embodiments of my invention, showing various forms of partitioning devices and ejector levers which may be employed, the bottoms of the compar inents being shown in section.

Figure 12 represents a plan view of a portion of a blank which is adapted to serve as the bottom of a record'holding con'ipart ment.

Figure 13 represents on an, enlarged scale, the manner of cut-ting or slitting the blank seen in Figure 12.

-Figure l i represents a plan view of Fi ure 15, showing the manner of securing the vertical parallel, partitions between the tongues of the metallic base employed,

Figure l5 represents on an enlarged scale a plan view of aportion 0t Figure 14-.

Figure 1.6 represents a front elevation ot a completed ejector, provided with the metallic base formed with the upwardly projecting tongues and partitions held between said tongues, said tongues being omitted for clearness of illustration.

Figure 1.7 represents a perspective viewof Figure 16. Figures 18 to 22 represent modifications, showing a metallic front employed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring first to Figures 1, 2 and 8, 1 designates an ejector skeleton, which is comp osed of partitions 2, having the'vertical front edge 3, the top tongue 4, the rearwardly inclined edge 5, which merges into the horizontal edge 6, which terminates in the vertical tongue or edge 7. The bottom edge of the partition 2 has a recess 8 therein,

which is formed b'y the cut out portion composed of the horizontal wall 9 and the vertical walls 1 and 11, whereby the two bottom tongues 12 and 13 are formed. The upper edges or tongues of the partitions2 are spaced apart by means ofthe horizontal spacing strips 14, while the bottom tongues 12a-nd13 arespaced apart and gripped between the spacing strips 15, and the rear tongues 7 are gripped between the vertical spacing strips 16, the strips 15 and 16 being of uniform or standard size or length.

The ejector levers 17 are composed of the comparatively narrow front portion 18 and the widened rearportioii 19, and are fulcrumed by the rod 20 passing through the hole 21, which is located in advance of the center of gravity of thelever, as seen in Figure 3. The spacing strips 14 are held in assembled position. by one or more tie rods 22, while the rear tongues 7 are held in assembled position by one or more tie rods, 28, while the bottom tongues 12 and 18 are held in assembled position by the tie .rods 24 and 25, it beingof course understood that one or more of said tie rods may be employed, according to requirements. a p

The disk record is indicated at 26 and the general position thereof with respect to the ejector lever 17 will be understood from Figure 1, it being apparent that said levers 17 form the bottoms of the record holding rompartments as 27, and in practice, I prefor to make the bottoms of the levers 17 rectilinear, whileftheir top, surfaces incline from about the fulcrum point 20 -forwardly and rearwardly, as indicated in Figure 1, from which it will be understood that the front and rea rendsof the ejector lever 17 are of, less thickness than the thickness of the lever at the fulcrum point 20, whereby when, the record is inserted in its proper compartment2'lj after itrollsrback beyond :the fulcrum point 20, it will have a slightly acceler-ated noveinent towards its rearmost position, andin lilre inannemwhehthe record is ejectedby the depression of the front end of the front portion 18 of the lever 17 after it advances beyond the fulcrum point upwardly divergin 20, it will have a slightly accelerated forward movement. v.

It will be further apparent' that by the widening of the rear portion 19 of the levers said rear portions will appear when viewed from the top as seen in F igure 2, so that there will be no liability, when it is desired to eject a desired record, of said rear widened portions 19 not properly coacting with the record it is desired to eject.

F or the purpose ofshowing the manner of cutting the partitions 2 from a sui table blanlr, I have shown in the upper portion of Figure 1 in dotted lines a partition identical with the partition 2, it being apparent that these partitions can be cut in a single opera-- tion by any suitable die or cutting implement. I

In Figures 4 and 6, I have shown another form of ejector skeleton 28, wherein I einploya series of vertical, parallel, closely re lated partitions 29 having the contour in side elevation seen in Figure 4, each of said partitions being provided with thevertical front portion 30,, the upper tongue 31 from which the rear edge 32- extends toiiieet the horizontal portion 33, from whichextends g edge 34 to form the tongue 35. v i

From the tongue 35 extends the rear edge 36 to meet the, horizontal portion 37, from which latter extends the iipwardly diverging edge 38, whereby the elongated rear tongue 39 is formed. v V

Frem the bottom of this rear tongue 39 extends the inclined edge 40, which forlhs thetongue 41, from which extends the edge 42 to meet the horizontal portion 43,,fro' n which extends the downwardly inclined ed e 44 t form the tongue 45, whose froiit wail is formed by the inclined edge 46, which extends to the vertical edge 30.

It will be apparent from Figure ,4 that the edge 30 01 the partition is vertical aiid that the edges 32 and 34 and arid 3:8 converge downwait'dly. The edges 40 and 7 42 and ,44 and 46 also converge downwardly to form the tongues 4l and respectively, and the cut-out portions 42, 43 and. 44 form a recess as indicated at 47. I, The upper tongues 31 and 35 are held in assembled position by ineausof the spacingstrips 48,

. which may have one or two tie rods 49 and 50. The rear elongated tonguesi are held in position by the vertical spacing strips 51., which are held in position by oneor more tie rods, as indicated at-52.,

The bottom tongues 41 iiiidAIifi are held in positioirby thebottoln horizontal spacing strips and the tie rods 54 and 5,5, which passthrough the tongues 41. and 45 respectively. I v j It will be understood that when the par} titions 29 and the respective spacing strips are assembled as seen in Figure 4, a series of closely related record holding compart ments 56 will be formed, as will be understood from Figure 5.

57 designates the ejector levers which are assembled to form the bottoms of the compartments, said levers having front and rear widened portions 58 and 59, which are oined by the narrower or neck portions 60, in which is the hole 61 through which the fulcrum rod 62 passes.

By the provision. of the rear widened portions 59, there will be no .liability of the rear portion of the ejector lever missing the uxtaposed contiguous periphery of the record which it is desired to eject, as is evident, and I have found from practical experiments that partitions having the upper and lower and rear tongues constructed as seen in Figure 4 are not liable to warp under any conditions of use.

It will be understood that the spacing strips 48, 51 and may be of substantially the same length, so that one standard set of spacing strips may be employed throughout. I

In the construction seen in Figure 7, l have indicated the ejector skeleton as 63, the same being formed from a plurality of partitions 6-1 each having its lower front and rear upright parallel edges 65 and 66 and at their upper portions the upwardly converging edges 67' and 68, whereby the tongues 69 are formed, each of said tongues being spaced apart and secured in position by means of the spacing strips 70 and the tie rods 71.

It will be understood that the record holding compartments are formed between a pair of partitions 64 and the bottoms of said compartments may be formed of strips as indicated at '72, it being noted that said bottoms incline forwardly and are provided with the recess or seats 73 in which records drop when in the'r rearmost or housed position.

It will be seen that the bottoms 72 of the compartments incline downwardly and forwardly, so that when the record is elevated from its seat 73 by any suitable elevating or e ectin mechanism, the record will instantly roll forwardly out of the skeleton or cabinet by gravity.

It will be apparent that various types of record elevating or ejecting means may be employed and in the construction seen in Figure 7, I have shown an ejector lever 74 which is composed of the front portion 75 fulcrumed at the point 76, in the rear of which, the ejector lever extends on a right line indicated at 77, thence upwardly as indicated at 78 and thence rearwardly as indicated at 79, so that it will be apparent that when the front end of the lever 74 is depressed, the rear end of the lever will be elevated into the position seen in dotted lines in Figure '7, whereuponthe record will roll forwardly by gravity down the sloping surface 72 out from the front of the ejector.

In the construction shown in Figure 8, it will be understood that the partitioning devices forming the record holding compartments are composed of the bent wires 80 and 81 having the front and rear members 82 and 83 and 84; and 85 respectively. The bottom ends of the members 82 and 84: and the rear ends of the members 83 and 85 may be anchored in any suitable manner and I have shown the rear ends of the members 83 and 85 as anchored in a plate or the like 86, which may be secured to or extend along the back edges of the sides 87 01: the skeleton or ejector.

The bottom wall or floor 88 inclines downwardly and forwardly similar to the floor T2 and is provided with the seat, slot or recess 89 into which a record, when in its rearmost or housed position drops, the record being ejected by means of the lever 90 whose rear portion 93 will elevate or dislodge the record from the seat 89 when the front end 92 is depressed, the levers 90 being fulcrumed at the point 91, by a transverse rod passing therethrough.

In the construction seen in Figures 7 and 8, it will be apparent that the record is automatically locked in its rearmost or housed position by its dropping through the slot in the forwardly inclined bottom or base.

In the construction seen in Figures 9 and 10 and 11, I use a forwardly inclined bottom of the general character seen in Figures 7 and 8, but provide a different form of gravity operated levers, which retain the record in its rearmost or housed position.

In Figure 9 I have indicated partitions 94, which can be assembled and secured in their upright relationship by any of the means heretofore described, so as to form record holding compartments, the bottom or base of the compartments being indicated at 95 and sloping downwardly and forwardly, the record being held in its rearmost or housed position by means of the lever 96 which is fulcrumed on the rod 97 and is provided with the front portion 98 and the rear portion 99.

It will'be apparent from Figure 9 that the front end 98 of the lever is heavier than its rear end, and said lever normally assumes the position seen in dotted lines, in which position the inner end of the portion 99 abuts against the periphery of the record so as to hold the latter in its rearmost or stowed position.

When it is desired for a record to be ejected,-the front end portion 98 is elevated from the position seen in dotted lines to the position seen in full lines in. Figure 9, whereupon the record rolls out of its compart- 101, which inclines downwardly and for wardly andhas slots 102 at its front end, in which levers 103 are located, said levers being fulcrumed at the point 104 and. the

front portion 105 offsaid lever being heavier than "the rear portion, so that the lever at all times normally assumes "the position/seen in Figure 10,111 whichits rearor inner end 100 contacts with the periphery of the record to hold it in its rearmost or stowed position.

In Figure 11 1 have shown the record holding compartments forrnedby the partitions 107, which have the vertical front edges 108, the front upper tongue 1'09, rearwardly inclined edge 110, and the rear hori- Viontalfp'ortion 111, which terminates in the rear (vertical edge'112.

T heftop tongues 1109 may be iLSStDllldGfl by means ofthe spacing strips -113and tie rods 114fof the sameconstruction as already described.

The bottom floor 115 inclines forwardly and downwardly. and has pivoted therein a lever-11:6 whose rear edge contacts with'th'e lower forward periphery oftheu'eco'r'd to hold the same in'i'ts rearmost o-r stowed position, while the front end of said lever contacts with the'top of the rear 117 of thelever 118 whose front end 119 is adapted tojbe actuated by a finger of'the operator applied to ,the front ofgthe lever The "compound levers" 118 and, 116 normally appear as seen in fir-ll lines in Figure 4-.fthe "rear .oftheflever 118 beingheavi'er than "its front endand the front'of the l'eve'r 110 being heavier than its rear portion, but

when it is jdesi'red to eject the desired record,

it iso'nly necessary to depress the forward end of the ]e v e r 119' so that the two jlev'ers assume the position seen in dotted-lines in Figure 11, whereupon the record will roll forwardly by gravity into the hands of the user. i i V i In Figiu'es 16 and 17, I have shown another form of ejector 120, which is composed of partitions 121. which are provided-with the vertical front rear edges 122 and 123 and the upwardly converging edges 124L-and 1:2 5, whichfare held between the spacing strips 126 by means of the tie rods 12?, which properly and accurately space apart the upperends of the partitions, the lower ends' thereof being spaced apart by means of'the tongues 12.8, which extend upwardly from the forwardly and downwardly inclined base 129, which has the rear yertical ,wall 130 and theffront' vertical wall said tongues 1'28 beingoini tted from"Figure The levers 1-32 are under the bottom and are fulcrumed at the point 133 and provided at the rear with atrougrh shaped portion 14% and at the front with rectilinear portion 145, which projects through the slots 1 16 in the front tvall 131.

i In constructing the forwardly and downwardly inclined metallic bottom or base member 129, 1 preferably make the same from a blank of thin sheet metal as seen in Figure 12 which I have indicated in its fiat state as 1 17;

By suitable die or cutting, pressing;- or stamping; mechanism, I simultaneously form the angular slits 148, seen in Figures 12 and 13 and I also simultaneously form the slots 14:6, and by a subsequent stamping, or pressing operation I may produce the finished base member seen "in Figure 17 the tongue members 128 bein'g'bent up so as to appear as seen in Figure 17 a-nd the top edge 14:9 and the bottom edge 150 being bent: downwardly to form the members 130 and 131 respectively, seen in Figure 17.

By this construction a very cheap and efficient metallic base member is formed by a'minimum number of operations out of thin sheet metal. I

hen the tongues 128 are bent in the position seen in Figure 17, it will be apparent that a slot of substantially the length of the aligning trough shape-d Iportion 14:4 of the lever 142 will be formed, into which the bottom periphery of a record will drop when in its rear-most or stowed position.

hen the levers 132 are assembled it will be apparent that their'front ends project through and are guided by the slots 186, so that the levers will be positioned and guided during their oscillations to eject the records, thee-latter being ejected by' the depression of the front ends of the levers.

In Figi1rejs18 to' 21, I have shown another form of skeleton 151. wherein the front is composed of a vertical plate 152', having the staggered tongues 153 punched from the rearthereof, by' substantially'the sarne' method as described with reference to Figures l2 to 1 1, will be understood from 'Figu re 21 I which is a perspective yiew of the rear of the front plate after the formation of the tongue 153 in vertical rows. Ihe partitions 2 which are the same as seen in Figure 1. can have their front edges 53 inserted between the vertical rows of rear nie'tallict'on rues {153, whereby the fronts-of the partitions are properly secured, after which the tongues 4. 7, 12 and '13 are secured by spacing strips and tie rods. as seen in Figure 11, so that the front of the skeletonappears as seen in Figure 18 and its side as seen in Figure 19,"?the bending, stamping or pressing of the staggered tongues 153 rearwardly seen in Figure 21" forming upright continuous vertical slots 154- in the rear of the front metal plate 152, through which the records are inserted.

The bottoms of the record holding compartments are formed by levers 17.

I have shown the front appearance of these backwardly bent tongues 153 at the left of Figure 18, but have omitted them from the right thereof for the sake of clearness of illustration. Figure 22 shows the partitions 29 having their fronts secured to the metal front 152.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful phonographic disk record cabinet, which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have in the present instance shown and described preferred embodiments thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my what I claim as new and desire to secure Letters Patent is 1. In a record container or ejector, a plurality of vertical, closely related, parallel compartments formed by partitions having upper, lower and rear tongues, the bottom portions of said partitions being cut away, and ejector levers forming the bottoms of said compartments.

2. In a record container or ejector, a plurality of vertical, closely related, parallel compartments formed by partitions having upper, lower and rear tongues, the bottom portions of said partitions being cut away, and ejector levers forming the bottoms of said compartments, said ejector levers having their top surfaces from their fulcrum point inclined forwardly and rearwardly.

3. In a record container or ejector, a plurality of vertical, closely related, parallel coinpartn'ients formed by partitions having upper, lower and rear tongues, the bottom portions of said partitions being cut away, and ejector levers forming the bottoms of said compartments, said ejector levers haw ing their top surfaces from their fulcrum invention, by

point inclined forwardly and rearwardly, and said levers having their rear portion wider than their forward portion.

4:. In a record container or ejector, a plurality of partitions having a plurality of upper, lower and rear tongues, spacing strips, and tie rods common to said tongues for holding said partitions in assembled position to form compartments, and ejector levers pivoted in the lower portion of said compartments to form the bottoms thereof.

5. In a record container or ejector, aplurality of partitions having a plurality of upper, lower and rear tongues, spacing strips, and tie rods common to said tongues for holding said partitions in assembled position to form. compartments, and ejector levers pivoted in the lower portion of said compartments to form the bottoms thereof, the front and rear portions of said levers being wider than said intermediate portions.

6. An ejector skeleton having its front formed by a metallic plate having rear wardly deflected staggered tongues forming vertical slots, said tongues being arranged in vertical rows, vertically arranged partitions having their front vertical edges positioned between said tongues, and means for spacing apart and securing the top, rear and bottom portions of said partitions, in combination with ejector levers having their fulcrum rod passing through the lower front portions of said partitions.

7. An ejector skeleton having its front formed by a metallic plate having rearwardly deflected. staggered tongues forming vertical slots, said tongues being arranged in vertical rows, vertically arranged partitions having their front vertical edges positioned between said tongues, and means for spacing apart and securing the top, rear and bottom portions of said partitions, in combination with ejector levers having their fulcrum rod passing through the lower front portions of said partitions, the rear portions of said levers being wider than their front portions.

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